Jessica stumbled again, bringing her hands up to her ears this time, trying to block something out and gritting her teeth. This was her fault, she shouldn't have come this way, she could have survived a siege on the apartment if she really wanted to. No, nope, she couldn't stay here. She scrambled forward.
Eventually, her hand slipped into a different doorframe, smooth metal under her palm instead of the splintering wood of the room entrances, and as she felt around he found the seam in the heavy elevator doors. The water didn't help, she was sure she was going to tear a nail off, but eventually she worked them open a crack, then an inch, then could push them apart bodily until she could reach blindly into the blackness of the elevator shaft, flailing her arm around and slowly tipping further in over the cavern below.
The cable was in her hand. The doors slammed shut behind her. She swung, sliding with her wet fingers until they burned, until she had the cable between her knees and all she could hear was that alien warbling of the cable through the elevator shaft. Maybe she could just stay here.